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In summer we live on the threshold. Loggia, porch, veranda: the strip between indoors and out becomes the most lived-in room of the house, and deserves to be designed as one.
In August many homes are left behind. Shutters half closed, still air, light crossing the rooms with no one to watch it. It is worth asking what stays beautiful when no one is there.
In summer the evening lasts for hours. It is the moment when the home moves outside, and artificial light should accompany, not replace.
Before the system, there is the design. A home that knows how to move air stays liveable in summer with very little energy.
A holiday home lives on a few things, well chosen. It is an exercise in subtraction that teaches a lot about the everyday home too.
We touch a home before we look at it. In summer, the difference between a room that welcomes and one that repels comes down to the degrees its surfaces hold.